It was 20 minutes after noon in Portugal when, on Christmas Day, December 25, 2021, a French-made Ariane 5 rocket took off from the Kourou Space Center, in French Guiana. Breaking through the clouds in the north of the South American continent, Ariane carried at its tip one of the most anticipated and ambitious space exploration projects of the last three decades: the James Webb space telescope, the largest and most advanced telescope ever built by the space agency. North American NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Canadian Space Agency. Your destination: the second Lagrange Point, a point of gravitational balance between the Earth and the Sun, 1500 million kilometers from our planet, on a mission to discover the origins of the Universe.
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2023-12-23 15:54:00
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